Amend Constitution to guarantee our liberty

August 21, 2013

We have a federal government that spies on its citizens while ignoring warnings about actual terrorists. We have a federal bureaucracy that writes thousands of regulations a year with no congressional oversight. We have a Congress that has become part of the D.C. beltway quagmire with an ever-growing spending addiction. We have a Supreme Court that illegally rewrites the Constitution (i.e., Obamacare).

We have an imperial president who chooses which laws he will follow and who changes laws to fulfill his "fundamental transformation" of America. Checks and balances, a cornerstone of the Constitution, have been ignored. The average citizen is made to feel subservient to a government that passes laws for the people, but not for those in power.

There is a way to restore the Constitution back to the founders' original design and intent — to ensure individual freedoms. Article V of the Constitution describes two ways to amend the Constitution. The first method has been used 27 times over the years. The second method involves the direct application of two-thirds of the state legislatures for a convention with the sole purpose of proposing amendments. Congress, the Supreme Court and the president cannot obstruct this process. This is the only way left to restore our Constitution and guarantee liberty to all people, not just those in government.